Giacomo Piussi

“Giacomo Piussi knows the lessons of painting and sculpture of the past in depth and, as you can see, it is not difficult to discover his passions. The closed volumetric lines he uses are the same we can see in some of the grand “cartoons” of the history of art, from the sculptures of the Tetrarchy, to the metopes of the Cathedral of  Modena (…), from Giotto to Giottino, from Nanni di Bartolo to Sassetta (….). Piussi’s dark lines frame spaces containing a measured chromatic range. The pictorial matter is rough and uncultivated. No details is allowed in the painting, no particulars, no virtuosity of brushwork.”

Luigi di Corato, “Piussi. L’educazione sentimentale”, 2002